Where:
Mosesian Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street
Watertown, MA 02472
Admission:
$25-67
Categories:
Performing Arts
Event website:
http://www.newrep.org
A contemporary coming-of-age comedy
by Lindsay Joelle
a new england premiere
Best friends Zalmy and Shmuel spend their days as the Rebbe’s loyal foot soldiers, driving their “Mitzvah Tank” through 1990s Manhattan, performing good deeds. The two young men soon find themselves at odds, as a newcomer wishing to learn more about their Chasidic ways creates discord between them. Juxtaposing the secular and the sacred, the familiar and the unknown, the accepted and the forbidden, Zalmy and Shmuel are forced to reexamine the core of their faith and their relationship. Rich in humor, emerging playwright Lindsay Joelle’s Trayf is a moving new play that explores identity, assimilation, and friendship.